Quote: "You're not behind a router? They give pretty good protection. Especially if it's an "annoying" router...
If you don't want to disable your firewall, have you at least checked its exceptions/rules for the programs that won't work?"
I am using a router, I didn't realise they offered good protection, but I'll at least check those settings. If routers do offer good protection, then I suppose that's why I can't send any data, but then wouldn't that apply to all other computers that use it, the only difference between that one and all of the other Windows computer in the house running off it, is that it uses the USB port the others use wireless/ethernet (Because my PC is too old to have an ethernet port as standard...)
Cheers.
@Mikey, I did a reformat soon before posting here, that was my cure for my awful performance issues in another thread, as it seemed there were not more answers. The connection issue has been here since the reformat and it happened initially when I installed this modem with our upgrade from 3mb to 12mb broadband. The solution then was to use my old modem, a few months later I tried the newer modem and it worked, unfortunately, this time I don't have that modem. As for the SP2 upgrade, believe or not that was the only reason I went into Internet Explorer, which apparently the trojan I had was connected with it, as I put the Firefox install file onto my backup disk hoping I'd never need IE again. When I tried to do an update with SP2, the update service wouldn't work on each attempt, because of this strange internet connection.
Also, I suppose this SP2 thing is a real necessity for stability in Windows then? So really, until I get those updates, I am vunerable to more Trojans (As I'm not convinced I got rid of everything through all of those scans)
I hope Microsoft have a solid install of SP2 that I can access through FF, I've already searched their download center, but I guess either it's not their, or they don't have a good search engine on the site.
I bet I wouldn't have these issues with Win2k or MacOS X
What are apparently as the two best non-free OS's out there.
[edit] please note I only mean that last statement in context with my needs, not anybody elses.
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